academented

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of academic +‎ demented

Adjective[edit]

academented (comparative more academented, superlative most academented)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) Representing wrong or harmful views or beliefs that are generally accepted in academia.
    • 1995, Ilene Rosoff, The WomanSource Catalog & Review:
      A woman who chooses to be a philosopher creating in her own right has little tolerance for the droning of academented professors who re-search and re-gurgitate the babble of dead men endlessly.
    • 1997, Gary J. Dorrien, The Word as True Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology, page 216:
      [] You are killing me with your academented stupidity." To her, the postmodern emphasis on cultural difference and the sociocultural construction of the self obscure the universal sameness and evil of patriarchy.
    • 1998, Mary Daly, Quintessence:
      The patriarchal device of con-fusion involves endless blurring of soulless images, signifying nothing. In the foreground, barbie dolls and the Great Goddess are the same. "Feminists" are lauded in the media and academented publications for accepting and promoting pornography.

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